Ghost Admin design updates
Ghost Admin just had a facelift and some big improvements to usability. Now browsing your published posts and drafts is much more intuitive and you can filter your content by author, tag, and post status, or sort by newest and oldest.
Ghost(Pro) users can already access the new admin area. Self hosted developers can use Ghost-CLI to install the latest release.
A new Ghost Admin API
The Ghost Content API makes it possible to pull any content out of Ghost, or use it as a Headless CMS. Today we're excited to be able to share our new Admin API, which does just the opposite: It creates total flexibility around how you get content in to Ghost.
Language support in code cards
Add syntax highlighting to blocks of code on your site using code cards in the Ghost editor, which now support language selection and captions!
Install privacy focussed analytics on your site
It's possible to integrate your Ghost publication with modern analytics tools that are privacy-focused, GDPR compliant and don't track your site visitors. Find out how with the latest additions to our integrations library: Simple Analytics and Fathom.
We're excited to add these solutions alongside other popular analytics tools, like Google Analytics and Segment. Keeping on top of your site metrics is a breeze using sensible code injection in Ghost.
Improved in-app notifications
We've just rolled out some new improvements to how we inform you about exciting new features, upgrades and other important information inside Ghost.
Now you'll see more personalised information in the admin area and each staff user can dismiss notifications at their own leisure. Keep an eye out for these notifications to find out about the latest features in Ghost!
Add comments to your posts in a few simple steps
We recently published some new integration guides including two new tools for implementing comments to your posts.
Guides on how to add comments to your site using Commento and Talkyard have been published, alongside existing integrations for Disqus and Discourse. Getting setup with comments takes just a few steps, using a snippet of code in your post.hbs theme files. This provides even more options to integrate a commenting system that suits your needs.
Discover new ways to connect your Ghost publication with your favourite apps and tools using our integrations library.
Custom canonical URLs
You can now implement custom canonical links directly in the Ghost editor for guest posts, multiple versions of the same page or when you need to curate a list of links to external sources
Advanced Sitemap Plugin for Gatsby
We just shipped a new plugin that automatically generates advanced sitemaps for static sites built with Gatsby
Curated news for independent publishing
Our new weekly newsletter is a hand-picked roundup of the latest news in publishing, sent to a discerning group of people who are invested in the future of the industry.
Ghost on the JAMstack
After some major updates to Ghost's public API and tooling, it's now possible to use Ghost as a completely decoupled headless CMS.
New open-source Ghost themes
We've shipped three shiny new Ghost themes to the Marketplace that are ready to use, fully open-source, free and extensible. Plus: a new starter theme for developers!
Responsive image sizes
Optimise your site performance with responsive images and display image content at the best size across your publication!
All new Ghost Docs & Integrations
Our entire Ghost docs library has had a complete makeover as well as some brand new additions including tutorials and integrations ✨
Automatic image optimisation, image galleries and more
Using images in Ghost just got a whole lot better with instant image optimisation, responsive image galleries and API improvements!
Introducing Ghost 2.0
A powerful new editor, multi-language support, custom homepages, dynamic routes, custom structures and much more
After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost
Last week marked the fifth anniversary since the Ghost Kickstarter campaign which started it all. It's always fun to use these milestones to take a step back and reflect on the journey so far. On previous birthdays I've talked about revenue milestones and product updates, but this year I'm going to focus more on all the things we've learned since we started. Just for context though, here's a quick overview of where we are today: ---------------------------------------------------------------
TWiG #3: It's been 5 years! Founders Q&A
We managed another 6 months (actually more like 9) since our last podcast, but it's a good one! Last week while writing up our 5 year anniversary post [https://blog.ghost.org/5/] we asked for your questions. There were so many great ones, we didn't even manage to get to them all! We did spend a solid hour going through as many as we could though, answering everything from how to run a remote business, to what we think about the state of open source as a whole, and what advice we would give to
Theme translations and blog localisation
Last week we released [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/1.20.0] one of our most requested features: theme translation & site localisation. This was a community project developed almost entirely by open source contributor Juan [https://github.com/juan-g], with support from the Ghost Foundation team. We've written up a full page documentation for this feature [https://ghost.org/docs/api/v2/handlebars-themes/helpers/translate/], but here's a quick overview of how everything works:
Zapier x Ghost
Need to connect external services to your Ghost site and automate your workflows? Now you can, with our new official integration with Zapier!
Time to Upgrade your CLI!
We've released version 1.3.0 [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/releases/tag/1.3.0] of Ghost-CLI — with some very important updates... Please upgrade as soon as you can! Highlights * [New] SSL renewal fix & migration * [New] Added Ghost compatibility check * [Improved] CLI upgrade notifications * [Fixed] Removed knex-migrator [https://github.com/TryGhost/knex-migrator] dependency In Detail 1.3.0 is an important release, for the following reasons: * The SSL renewal issue will be a
Ghost Android
Ghost has always been a responsive web application, but today we're taking that a step further with an official native Android app! We've always tried to make a solid mobile web experience for Ghost admin, but inevitably it has always been fairly limited in what it can do. Wrestling with mobile browsers in 2017 is still a lot more painful than it should be. Having felt some of the same frustrations, last year Vicky Chijwani [https://github.com/vickychijwani] decided to create a completely ind